This Week at St. James: September 5, 2024 | |
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The Provost's Greeting
The Very Rev. Lisa Hackney-James
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This Sunday marks the beginning of the new program year at St. James. Our choirs return to full strength and we will welcome everyone back with a treat at 10am in Kyle’s Place (the open room adjoining our glass lobby and welcome center on the first floor) All are welcome to join in welcoming one another back from summer break, and creating their own ice cream sundaes. Sunday School students and parents will meet their teachers for what will mark roughly the 190th time that St. James has gathered for a kickoff Sunday.
The Gospel passage appointed for this Sunday tells the story of a person whose persistence and tenacity changed the course of her life and that of her child’s. Different accounts identify her as the Syro-Phoenician woman or the Canaanite woman, but whatever her origin story, Jesus recognizes in her a persistence, a faith, that changes the facts on the ground – for her, and for all those beyond his previously identified scope of concern.
And in between these two stories, the persistent trailblazer from Tyre and the gathered community of St. James, Chicago, have come the countless faithful who over time have made up God’s people, Christ’s body in the world. Throughout this fall, we will be celebrating a “Season of Saints,” focusing on the ways in which God’s divine love has shone brightly through individuals who have managed, sometimes in spite of themselves, to discover the faith that is in them, and change the world around them by drawing us all closer into God’s vision for the human family.
I hope to see you this Sundae Sunday and throughout our upcoming Season of Saints as we discover and celebrate the ways that our persistence in faith allows God to make of us something extraordinary.
Lisa+
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The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Sunday, September 8
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8 a.m. - Spoken Eucharist
9 a.m. - Family Eucharist
10 am. - Sundae Sunday
11 a.m. - Choral Eucharist (live-streamed)
12:15 p.m. - Coffee Hour
2 p..m. - Young Adults
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Sundae Sunday is September 8 at 10 a.m. | Everyone is invited to join us for Sundae Sunday in Kyle's Place, September 8 at 10:00 am. Come help scoop and top ice cream sundaes. Meet our Sunday School and Youth Group leaders. Enroll your children for our updated curricula for ages 0-17. We invite you to learn about being a classroom helper. Contact the Rev. Canon Steven Balke at sbalke@saintjamescathedral.org for more information. | |
Program Year begins September 15 | |
Starting September 15, we are back for our regular programming. The Forum resumes in Kyle's Place, children's Sunday School resumes in the classrooms, and Youth Group resumes on the 2nd floor, all on Sundays at 10:00 am! Contact the Rev. Canon Steven Balke at sbalke@saintjamescathedral.org to learn about new offerings and new opportunities to help make high-quality formation a priority at St. James Cathedral.
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Wednesday Nights at St. James resume September 11 | |
Our regular pattern of gathering in community on Wednesday evenings returns September 11 at 5:45 pm in the cathedral for Evensong led by our choristers, followed by a community dinner at 6:00 pm in the Great Hall, adult formation at 6:30 pm, and compline at 7:30 pm. Join us for part or all of these community offerings. For more information or to learn how you can help, contact the Rev. Canon Steven Balke at sbalke@saintjamescathedral.org. | |
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Yound Adults (20s/30s) Second Sunday Gathering
Sunday, September 8
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The Young Adults group is excited to kick-off the 2024 program year by welcoming all young adults - individuals in their 20s and 30s, often students or individuals who have recently moved to the city for school or work and are seeking to build community. The group will meet in Kyle’s Place at 2:00 pm on Sunday, September 8th, to gather over a simple lunch for food and fellowship. If you are able to join us, please RSVP via this Evite link. All are welcome! | |
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A Season of Saints
September 15 - November 3
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As Autumn arrives, we invite you to a festive and thoughtful Season of Saints at St. James. Each Sunday from September 15 through November 3, we will be celebrating how Jesus Christ has inspired people throughout the generations to be the Church in the world. The season will feature special lessons and sermons remembering the saints of the past, plus discussions in the Forum about how we the Church join in the work of the saints today. | | |
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Setting out for deep waters | After asking Peter for a lift in his boat, Jesus invites him out into the deep waters to let down his nets. We all know that weariniess or the skepticism in Peter's voice when he replies, "We've tried that already" But Peter none the less responds to Jesus's invitation by going fishing in deep seas, and is immediately confronted with a crisis of abundance. In our #SermonOfTheDay, Provost Lisa Hackney-James invites us to imagine ourselves faithful enough to head out to deep waters, and redilient enough to deal with God's abundance! | | |
Junior Choir now recruiting! | |
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Our Junior Choir is now accepting new singers, aged 4-8. The Junior Choir meets every Wednesday afternoon and sings at the 9am service once a month. This music education offering is completely free and open to all families, regardless of their affiliation with St. James. For more information, please contact Jessica McCarthy:
jmccarthy@saintjamescathedral.org
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Restore Reimagine Rebuild
St. James Capital Campaign Prayer
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Faithful God, you call us to be living stones in a spiritual temple.
Bless the mission and outreach of this cathedral church.
By the power of your Holy Spirit, enable us confidently to restore its fabric,
trustfully to reimagine our vocation, and boldly to renew
our ministries in your name.
Make this place a house in which your love dwells
and in which all your people find welcome.
Grant this, we pray, through the One who leads us ever onwards
in your service, Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
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FOR THOSE COMMENDED TO THE PRAYERS OF THE CATHEDRAL COMMUNITY: Brenda, Ellen, Richard, Ginger, Jane, John, Loya, Andronica, Ibukun, Ted, Thomas, Hailey, Dennis, Oriana, Elizabeth, Gemma, Nancy, Tom, Roseann, Nicole, Kevin, Juan, Carl, Julie, Lois, Scott, Brad, Kyle, Germaine, LaVonne
FOR THOSE WHO HAVE DIED AND HAVE BEEN COMMENDED TO THE PRAYERS OF THE CATHEDRAL COMMUNITY: Donna Urbytes, Laverne Hughes
FOR ALL THOSE WHO DIED BY GUN VIOLENCE IN CHICAGO IN THE PAST WEEK: Emauni, Toron, Rodney, Tyquan, Marco, Demarie, Joshua, Anita
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